“McMess”: Florida Sheriff Describes McDonald’s Drive-Thru Shooting With Fast-Food Puns

A Florida sheriff has used a series of fast-food puns to describe a chaotic shooting incident that began over delayed online orders at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Davenport.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd took to social media, calling the altercation a “McMess” in a statement detailing the arrests of the employee and two customers involved.

The incident occurred around 3 a.m. on October 12 after the restaurant was overwhelmed with online orders. According to Judd, the trouble started when overnight employee Yoan Soto, 21, told two customers at the drive-thru—Peter Story, 19, and Nicholas Jones, 18—that their order was “way behind” and he couldn’t take it.

Threats and a “McArgument”

The two teens allegedly threatened to wait for Soto to finish his shift and “beat him up,” prompting him to reply that he didn’t get off until 4 a.m. The situation escalated when the men reportedly went inside the restaurant to continue making threats…

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